The Bozeman Trail. Historical Accounts Of The Blazing Of The Overland Routes Into The Northwest, And The Fights With Red Cloud's Warriors.

GRACE RAYMOND AND E.A. BRININSTOOL HEBARD

Publication: The Arthur H Clark Company, 1922, Cleveland

First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. VOLUME I: Red cloth, gold stamping on spine, 346 pp., teg., frontispiece, preface, introduction, illustrated, folding map at rear of text. Near fine. VOLUME II: Red cloth, gold stamping on spine, 306 pp., teg., frontispiece, illustrated, folding map, afterword, index. Near fine. Introduction by General Charles King, U.S.V. "The Bozeman Road was critical to the settlement of Montana and mining Montana's mineral treasures especially gold. The emigrants cried out for military protection, but their cries were met with a paucity of troops led by Colonel Henry Carrington and the naive political belief that Red Cloud's Sioux and his allies were at peace with the United States to the point that General William T. Sherman encouraged wives to accompany their husbands to the most dangerous duty in the West. Red Cloud waged an unrelenting guerrilla war to defend his peoples last hunting grounds against the three undermanned forts and particularly Ft. Phil Kearny built to provide safe journey to Montana on the Bozeman Road. Red Cloud brought about 3000 militants together and on December 21, massacred Captain William Fetterman and his 80 soldiers and civilians decimating the fort's man power." The Arthur H. Clark bibliography and history #115 says, "This classic Clark title recounts the federal government's attempt to open a road north from the Oregon Trail through the Powder River country, hunting grounds of the Sioux, in the late 1860's. Containing previously unpublished narratives, this work has served as a valuable reference tool for students of the Northern Plains." Bookplates of the New Hampshire Historical Society on front endpapers of both volumes. A Near Fine, bright, attractive set.

Inventory Number: 49584